Iowa City police: Woman punched people waiting in pizza line

4:39 PM,
Jan. 27, 2014

Nora Sanchez-Castenada

Written by

Stephen Schmidt
Iowa City Press-Citizen

An Iowa City woman is facing assault and intoxication charges after she allegedly attacked several people waiting in line at Mesa Pizza on Washington Street.

According to Iowa City police complaints, officers responded to Mesa Pizza at 1:57 a.m. on Saturday morning for the report of a woman assaulting several patrons inside the restaurant. When they arrived they found a woman, later identified as Nora Sanchez-Castenada, 22, weeping in "a drunken stupor" outside the restaurant, according to the complaint.

Soon after officers arrived, several people rushed out of the restaurant and ...